Vocabulary+for+visiting+the+library

//Last revised by grosslearning, MK Gross // // 2017-FEB-6 //


 * VERBS -** **ESL Library Vocabulary (compiled in 2013)**
 * Borrow**: To take library materials home to use and then bring them back to the library.
 * Check Out / Check It Out**: To borrow an item from the library and take it home.
 * Place a Hold**: To ask the librarian to be put on the waiting list for a library material. Renew: To check out a library item again when you need more time to use it. **Return**: To bring back an item to the library.


 * NOUNS to** **Find and PRONOUNCE**:
 * Book Drop / Book Return Box**: A box where you can return library materials. Damaged: When an item or material is hurt, torn or broken.
 * Information Desk**: The big desk where the Librarian sits. Ask questions here!
 * Librarian**: Someone who works in the library. If you need help in the library, ask the librarians. I
 * Subject**: What the book, video or audiocassette is all about-the topic. Title: The name of a library material such as the name of a book or a video.
 * Video**: A media material on tape in a plastic case that has pictures, actions and sound on it.


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 * Call Number**: The special address on a library material. You use the call number to find the item on the library shelves.
 * Checkout Desk / Circulation Desk**: The big desk at the front of the library. You can check materials out and return them at this desk. You can also check out headphones.
 * Customers I Patrons I Users**: People who use the library.
 * Due·Date**: The date that you need to bring library materials back to thel brary. Fiction: Books or stories that are made up and not real.
 * Fiction**: Books or stories that are made up and not real.
 * Fine/fees**: Amount of money you have to pay for lost or damaged libracy materials. If you do not pay your fines or fees you cannot register for more classes, or even graduate from O.C.
 * Late**: Keeping an item past the due date·when you're supposed to return it to the library. Loan Period: The length of time you can check an item out of the library.
 * Lost**: When you can't find an item that you checked out of the library.
 * Magazine**: A print material with fewer pages than a book. It has a picture on the cover and a new one comes out every week or every month. It has pictures and stories in it.
 * Non-Fiction**: Books or stories that are true.
 * Library Catalog**: A computer list of all the materials that the library owns. You can search it to find books at the library.
 * Overdue**: Late.
 * Reference Book**: A book that librarians refer to or look at a lot. Reference books include some dictionaries and encyclopedias. Reference books cannot be checked out of the library.

Based on: Amy Herman, Library Faculty, g/26/oglibrarians@olympic.edu This list was adapted from a handout from Renton Technical Community College Library. http://libguides.olympic.edu/content.php?pid=46365&sid=523630, Retrieved 28 March 2013

//Last revised by grosslearning, MK Gross // //2017 -// //print using default mode, first page only//